"The first victory we can claim is that our hearts are free of hatred. Hence we say to those who persecute us and who try to dominate us: ‘You are my brother. I do not hate you, but you are not going to dominate me by fear. I do not wish to impose my truth, nor do I wish you to impose yours on me. We are going to seek the truth together’. THIS IS THE LIBERATION WHICH WE ARE PROCLAIMING."
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas (2002)

Last month on February 3, 2015 Rosa María before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee provided the following indictment of the Obama administration's outreach to the dictatorship in Cuba:

On 22 July 2012, Cuban State Security detained the car in which my
father, Oswaldo Payá, and my friend Harold Cepero, along with two young
European politicians, were traveling. All of them survived, but my
father disappeared for hours only to reappear dead, in the hospital in
which Harold would die without medical attention.

The Cuban government wouldn’t have dared to carry out its death
threats against my father if the US government and the democratic world
had been showing solidarity. If you turn your face, impunity rages. While you slept, the regime was conceiving their cleansing of the pro-democracy leaders to come. While you sleep, a second generation of dictators is planning with impunity their next crimes.